[/quote] Aside from the limitations of recording equipment decades ago, how the hell do producers and sound engineers not hear shit tone when we can? It's like tv shows and movies. One watch and I can often tell if it's a flop and headed toward cancellation, yet some executive greenlit the show for ...

Speaking of tv . . . In the 70s Reading all of this makes me understand why all kids in Sweden admired and wanted to go to America in the 70s and 80s. It was really a different world. The 70s were pretty crap here, the rapid economic decline notwithstanding. Sweden dropped from 4th place in the OEC...

Black Sabbath - Born again Love the songs but the sound is horrible. I kinda like it. Iommis tone is trebly and solid-statey, but it fits the heaviness of the material. Some of those riffs are like proto-thrash. Wasn't that going to be remixed now that Iommi has recovered the studio tapes? What he ...

I didn't care for the re-records, Kings of metal especially did not need to be touched. But I would like to hear mountains with excellent production. Agree. Overall the Sign of the Hammer album needs to be re-recorded and it hasn't even been remastered AFAIK. The songs and vocals are great but I ha...

Hellsinkey wrote: ↑Thu Sep 11, 2025 8:48 pm Half The Way Valley

x2 or is it like x6 now??

For a second I thought it was a younger Gerard Depardieu in the picture.

The first Invasion album is the ultimate over the top hard rock album and is even more over the top than Nitro. Super high vocals, drums sound like a drum machine, and his solos are completely insane and don't even follow the song melody or structure in any way most of the time. I like it too, but ...

I was going to suggest the original Van Halen but Dym's going to call them a "cover band" again and I'll flip my lid. Too much lid-flipping these days. VH is off the table. I think we all agree that VH3 is garbage. Even the VH diehards. The original Alice Cooper band is a good call. Also ...

It must have been 2 years since they first announced they're releasing a re-record of sign of the hammer followed by an album of all new material. They even had little interview Snippets and Studio reports about them - over a year ago. I know they've done a few one-off European and South American s...

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Lobo wrote: ↑Sun Sep 07, 2025 7:36 pm Metallica: "Escape" from Ride The Lightning.

It’s always been a great song. The album is 10/10

Yeah. That song is greater than bad. It’s fucking good

It's not even the worst song on RTL.

Priest....live (minus Parental Guidance and RYAATW, thus ruining the thread point, but the rest is perfection, and I deleted those MP3s from my copy) PG is not bad on the live album and even better on Turbo Thirty and some 1986 bootlegs. The studio version is too slow and lacking energy. RYYATW is ...

And I definitely blame Tom Werman. He may have been a good pop producer, but he completely neutered heavy metal bands. The records he did for Dokken and Crue had similar problems. Dokken Tooth and Nail has one of the worst tones for a major label album. The Rock Candy CD remaster is a massive upgra...

Sleek wrote: ↑Wed Sep 10, 2025 12:44 pm Lookin' like we got Polly Holliday and Charlie Kirk.

Cpt Kirk from Star Trek can't die, he's a fictional figure!

Good news for those who ordered the box set! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Still remember in 1996 choosing between prepaying for a multi disc demo collection put together by the artist himself, or one by a different artist but put together by a bunch of fans I only knew from a mailing list. I even had so...

Yes, sir, no, sir Don't come close to my Home sweet home Can't catch no dose Of my hot tail poontang sweetheart Sweathog ready to make a silk purse From a J. Paul Getty and his ear With her face in her beer Great song, but WTF? Came here to write another Aerosmith song. "My Fist Your Face"...

HoldenSSV wrote: ↑Sun Sep 07, 2025 7:21 am Don't Shoot Shotgun

Don't you mean Excitable? WTF were they thinking having that and Love and Affection on the album while leaving off Tear It Down and I Wanna Be Your Hero??

Van Halen - Tokyo Dome Live

Bono Nettencourt wrote: ↑Sat Sep 06, 2025 1:35 pm Deep Purple - MiJ

This.
Also, not mentioned yet:

Priest ... Live!
Accept - Staying a Life
Sabbath - Past Lives


Kiss - Des Moines 1977 Off the Soundboard would wipe the floor with both Alives if the sound and mix was better. Still, raw unapologetic 1977 Kiss is a good listen

In his book Jay Jay claimed that at some point he deliberately stopped advancing further as a guitar player since he was managing the band and arranging all the club gigs and promotion. He said that was a better way to spend his time since that was where the band made its money and he was at a guit...

Good news for those who ordered the box set! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Still remember in 1996 choosing between prepaying for a multi disc demo collection put together by the artist himself, or one by a different artist but put together by a bunch of fans I only knew from a mailing list. I even had so...

Wednesday 13 Fan wrote: ↑Fri Sep 05, 2025 5:04 am

Velvis wrote: ↑Thu Sep 04, 2025 1:17 pm

MetalSludgeCEO wrote: ↑Thu Sep 04, 2025 12:11 pm

Same applies for Big Asses... #gross!

$tEvil

Well look at that, me agreeing with you!

Same! But I don't mind a bigger ass now and then, as long as it's not ridiculous.

Agree too, but i do mind a big ass if it stands out. Not attractive.

Gibsonite wrote: ↑Fri Sep 05, 2025 5:38 am Vito Bratta.

This.

Also, can't deny Dimebag's talent but Pantera sucked.

Accept - Starlight ("I know the bright lights of Hollywood, movietown's a phony world"...)

DonJuanDeMarco wrote: ↑Tue Sep 02, 2025 9:18 am Led Zeppelin are huge but it would be interesting to see what would’ve happened had they kept going either with or without John Bonham.

There would be no multiplatinum Whitesnake and Kingdom Come because Zep would have made those hair metal albums themselves. See also Heart, Scorps, Starship....

Joey from Manowar installing drywall, or something they can still do on the road like IT stuff or marketing, Joey from Manowar didn't install drywall. He writes all the songs, produces, manages the band and owns the studio they record in and also produces other bands, does public speaking and he al...

I would say yes. Few bands had TWO guys who sucked on guitar.
Maybe Slayer?

Present!!! It is Robert singing. I’m 99% sure these are old songs from the time of the first album. No. These tracks are from the never released Guitarmageddon album. A few songs of which ended up on the 1996 Euphoria EP. VVI wrote in the comments that those are all new recordings. Re-recordings of...

TYTAN3K wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 11:01 amPRETTY MAIDS

Nope. Albums 2 and 3 are their classics.

It sounded like Aldo Nova without good songs. Aldo Nova has good songs? Semi-serious question, i have heard 2-3 Nova albums but can't remember one song. Not awful but very forgettable imo. How on Earth did his s/t go double platinum in the 1990s? Fantasy by Aldo Nova was MASSIVE and is still an awe...

FreddyFender wrote: ↑Wed Aug 27, 2025 8:46 am
It sounded like Aldo Nova without good songs.

Aldo Nova has good songs?

Semi-serious question, i have heard 2-3 Nova albums but can't remember one song. Not awful but very forgettable imo. How on Earth did his s/t go double platinum in the 1990s?